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February 4, 2020|Cold War, Conservatism, Getting Right with Reagan, Marcus Witcher, nuclear weapons, Ronald Reagan

Getting Reagan Right

by Paul Kengor|

A new book grapples thoughtfully with Reagan's legacy but misunderstands a central point about his stance on nuclear weapons.

July 19, 2019|Apollo 11, Cold War, Space Race

A Giant Leap, Fifty Years On

by Tony Williams|

This view of Earth rising over the Moon's horizon was taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smyth's Sea on the nearside. Coordinates of the center of the terrain are 85 degrees east longitude and 3 degrees north latitude. Image Credit: NASA
The fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11 is a time for honoring that human spirit that drives us to extraordinary achievements previously thought impossible.

May 16, 2019|Cold War, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, How Public Policy Became War, New Deal, Progressivism, The Federalist, War on Drugs, Woodrow Wilson, World War I

Politics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport

by David Davenport|

President Roosevelt delivers a "Fireside Chat".
David Davenport discusses how we lost "the cool, deliberate sense of the community" in making public policy and embraced the war metaphor.

April 26, 2019|Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski

The Problem with Paris: an Alternative Reading of Pawlikowski’s Cold War

by Carl Eric Scott|

Still image from Cold War (Opus Films/Amazon Studios).
Zula’s and Wiktor’s story is fundamentally tragic as opposed to merely “tempestuous.”

February 4, 2019|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones, Cold War, Henry Kissinger, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago

Solzhenitsyn in Exile

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is mobbed by journalists on his arrival in Zurich in 1974 after being deprived of his Soviet citizenship following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. (Keystone/Getty Images)
Solzhenitsyn had become, as the foreign policy analysts say, an existential threat to the Soviet Union. He had to be expelled.

January 18, 2019|Civil War, Cold War, extremism, polarization, Sectionalism, World War II

American Polarization and Extremism Are Just a Return to Normalcy

by James R. Rogers|

Image: MIA Studio/Shutterstock.com
For better or for worse, the increasing political polarization and extremism we see today is no more than a reversion to the American norm.

January 11, 2019|Cold War, communism, Deutschland 86

Deutschland 86: Show Me the Way Home

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

So hard up are the East Germans that they are willing to sell military hardware to their enemies.

December 17, 2018|Abraham Lincoln, Civil Religion, Cold War, Foreign Policy, George Washington, Iraq War, Progressivism, The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy, Theodore Roosevelt

American Heresies and the Betrayal of the National Interest: A Conversation with Walter McDougall

by Walter A. McDougall|

Walter McDougall discusses how America's civil religion has shaped our foreign policy.

September 20, 2017|Cold War, communism, Ken Burns, Vietnam War

Ken Burns’ Vietnam

by William Anthony Hay|

Journalists often claim to write the first draft of history, but that statement raises the question when a story turns from current events into history.  The Vietnam War now stands closer to World War II than 2017.  A formative experience for the baby boom generation, those who came of age after 1990 see Vietnam as an episode in history.  Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns captures the immediacy of the conflict in the ten episode series The Vietnam War airing on PBS.  The series also raises larger questions about American foreign policy that resonate today.

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May 5, 2017|Cold War, Dave Brubeck, December Avenue, Eastern European Communism, Public Diplomacy, Tomasz Stanko

“The Message Was Freedom”: Tomasz Stańko’s Anticommunist Polish Jazz

by Mark Judge|

Tomasz Stańko

One of the most inspiring yet least known stories of resistance to communism during the Cold War is that of Poland’s Tomasz Stańko. Stańko, 74, is a jazz trumpeter whose beautiful, minimalistic and meditative style of playing is considered by many to be one of the great treasures of modern music. His new release, December Avenue, is a strong effort in what has been a remarkable series of albums over the last 15 years for the great German jazz label ECM. December Avenue is enjoyable on its own simply as a sublime record, but it takes on a dimension of historical…

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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